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" The next generation of graphics cards -- Volcanic Islands -- is coming this year and shaping up nicely. When you name products after places, it leads to interesting thoughts about where to hold events surrounding that namesake product. Typically places that are cheap to get travel to internationally for a worldwide congregation are preferred, so I'm off to renew my passport on the off chance I'm headed to Reykjavik later this summer. But I sure as hell wouldn't complain about being sent to Honolulu, either."

Image is just scheme of one of server designs.
Dashed square at left is 16core opteron with Cortex A5 for security and ECC memories.
GPU block at right side is indeed GCN, and it has 16 Compute Units, but it has 1024 Stream Processors which fits 64SP=1CU.

And at bottom that PCIe 3.0 is not card supporting it, it's chipset level support, means AMD decided it is meaningful for server. (May be needed for 6~8x FirePro cards.)

What i fail to understand with the rumors is WTF happened to Sea Islands? It was Sea Islands and Solar Sytem that we were supposed to be seeing in the 8000 series. Solar system in the mobile market which is just now being introduced and Sea Islands in the desktop segment.http://www.anandtech.com/show/6751/a...islands-beyond

I know it dates back to Feb. but i can't recall any other official statements on AMDs upcoming GPUs. Don't get me wrong if they surprised us with the specs above and jumped processes like noone thought they could i'll be astounded i just don't see it. It's one of those too good to sound true type of things.

Kind of like thinking the 780 can be 499$ and be withing 10% the performance of Titan.

What i fail to understand with the rumors is WTF happened to Sea Islands? It was Sea Islands and Solar Sytem that we were supposed to be seeing in the 8000 series. Solar system in the mobile market which is just now being introduced and Sea Islands in the desktop segment.http://www.anandtech.com/show/6751/a...islands-beyond

I know it dates back to Feb. but i can't recall any other official statements on AMDs upcoming GPUs. Don't get me wrong if they surprised us with the specs above and jumped processes like noone thought they could i'll be astounded i just don't see it. It's one of those too good to sound true type of things.

Kind of like thinking the 780 can be 499$ and be withing 10% the performance of Titan.

They already mentioned they will be going straight to 9000 series.

Also 780 will not be 10% slower than Titan but around 20% slower, which still makes it 20% faster then 680, so go figure.

Milking it much, YES SIR!!

That's why I got the Titan, because I covered this and next gen with a single GPU, or if you wish I covered 600 and 700 series for now, and by the time the 800 series come around the Titan will be around 10-20% slower, and I will still be able to play normally, at least as 580 users are standing now, comparing to this gen.

What i fail to understand with the rumors is WTF happened to Sea Islands? It was Sea Islands and Solar Sytem that we were supposed to be seeing in the 8000 series. Solar system in the mobile market which is just now being introduced and Sea Islands in the desktop segment.

I know it dates back to Feb. but i can't recall any other official statements on AMDs upcoming GPUs. Don't get me wrong if they surprised us with the specs above and jumped processes like noone thought they could i'll be astounded i just don't see it. It's one of those too good to sound true type of things.

Kind of like thinking the 780 can be 499$ and be withing 10% the performance of Titan.

Sea Island cards should have been launch on late 2012 Q1 2013.. AMD have annonce delay any new GPU series to Q4 or end of 2013..

Some month ago, the rumor have been unofficially confirmed, they are jumping directly to the next architecture: Volcanic Island.

Also today, we dont know if they will use the 28nm process or will be allready on 20nm.. ( let say, many rumors point the 20nm, TSMC have decided to build a second line of production for it who will be ready soon ).

Sea Island ( also called CI when abregate ), was ready current 2012, so you can imagine they have not report Sea Island of more of 1 year and will just launch them then in 2014.. ( the most common reason who float around is the 28nm process was dont give enough improvement possibility, and so the gain between South and Sea Island will have been not enough.

Also 780 will not be 10% slower than Titan but around 20% slower, which still makes it 20% faster then 680, so go figure.

Milking it much, YES SIR!!

That's why I got the Titan, because I covered this and next gen with a single GPU, or if you wish I covered 600 and 700 series for now, and by the time the 800 series come around the Titan will be around 10-20% slower, and I will still be able to play normally, at least as 580 users are standing now, comparing to this gen.

I didn't know they already mentioned they'd be skipping Sea Islands

Re-read my statement i said thinking that the 780 would be 10% slower than Titan is wishful thinking. Or was implying it. As you said leaked specs are already showing it's going to worse than 10%. Not only that but Titan is around 30% faster than the 7970GE so for people running OCed 7970s the 780 doesn't justify 500-600$ IMO. I was hoping it was very close to Titan i might made the jump.

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Sea Island cards should have been launch on late 2012 Q1 2013.. AMD have annonce delay any new GPU series to Q4 or end of 2013..

Some month ago, the rumor have been unofficially confirmed, they are jumping directly to the next architecture: Volcanic Island.

Also today, we dont know if they will use the 28nm process or will be allready on 20nm.. ( let say, many rumors point the 20nm, TSMC have decided to build a second line of production for it who will be ready soon ).

Sea Island ( also called CI when abregate ), was ready current 2012, so you can imagine they have not report Sea Island of more of 1 year and will just launch them then in 2014.. ( the most common reason who float around is the 28nm process was dont give enough improvement possibility, and so the gain between South and Sea Island will have been not enough.

I see any links? Would like to read it. Had no idea they cancelled Sea Islands. Though i did understand as far as Volcanic Islands was concerned that 20nm wasn't ready but i see it might be.

If Sea Islands/parts of it have been canceled, AMD will of course pull in Volcanic.
But that won't be whole 12 months earlier on low supply/expensive 20nm.
Remember Rory saying no more jumping on next node asap?

28nm VI? Maybe...
Or perhaps we will see some kind of mix GCN 1.1/2, because you don't just cancel entire lineup.

If Sea Islands/parts of it have been canceled, AMD will of course pull in Volcanic.
But that won't be whole 12 months earlier on low supply/expensive 20nm.
Remember Rory saying no more jumping on next node asap?

28nm VI? Maybe...
Or perhaps we will see some kind of mix GCN 1.1/2, because you don't just cancel entire lineup.

Sea islands has been canceled most likely. They would have released this in January had they not (aibs apparently had 8970 reference models being prepped back in December from a few sources). Also since OEM parts are labled as "HD 8xxx" it makes sense that they will just jump to VI. Tsmc has stated they will have 20nm by end summer/early fall which will be enough time to test the process as well.